Lifetime reduction of a quantum emitter with quasiperiodic metamaterials

Yuto Moritake,1 Kazuyuki Nakayama,1,2,* Toshihiro Suzuki,1 Hiroyuki Kurosawa,1 Toshiyuki Kodama,3 Satoshi Tomita,3 Hisao Yanagi,3 and Teruya Ishihara1 1Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8578, Japan 2Center for the Advancement of Higher Education, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8576, Japan 3Graduate School of Materials Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma 630-0192, Japan (Received 23 October 2013; revised manuscript received 22 July 2014; published 26 August 2014)

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